hikari is a stacking Wayland compositor which is actively developed on FreeBSD but also supports Linux. It is heavily inspired by the Calm Window manager. Its core concepts are views, workspaces, sheets and groups.
hikari is based on wlroots and has optional support for some of its protocols which are needed for certain programs to run.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Minimalistic look & feel.
- Stacking/Tiling hybrid view management.
- Configurable tiling capability.
- Modal interface.
- Arbitrary view grouping.
- View marks.
- Keyboard oriented.
- UCL configuration.
Website: hikari.acmelabs.space
Support:
Developer: raichoo
License: BSD license
hikari is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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|---|---|
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| Woodland | wlroots-based window-stacking compositor for Wayland |
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| croissant | Written in C |
| Otto | Visually focused desktop system and Wayland compositor |
| Hopalong | Simple Wayland compositor with a feature set that’s comparable to XFWM |
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